You have the right information and memory. I recall having posted the 'Convert to Metric' software, as an attachment to Do Hillger and wonder if you saved or deleted the same. This has the coversion desired:
1 therm =100000.3931 BTU
in its enegry section. Should you wish to receive it again, I can mail the attachment for you (about 785 kb).
Regards,
Brij B. Vij TIME: to think Metric!<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <And Calendar too>
From: "Joseph B. Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [USMA:24683] Re: POWER Not SI Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:58:37 -0500John David Galt wrote in USMA 24662:Where I live, PG&E (the gas supplier for most of the northern 2/3 of California) prices its gas by the "therm". A phone call revealed that a "therm" is defined as 1000 BTUs. This unit (actually determined for billing purposes by measuring the volume used and the outdoor temperature, and applying a complicated formula written by the state Public Utilities Commission) is supposed to be fairer than pricing by volume because it allows for the fact that the gas expands with temperature: one "therm" in the summer occupies a greater volume but contains the same amount of gas. Does anyone here even recall how to convert the BTU to SI?My memory is that the therm is 100 000 Btu, so I checked it in Scientific Unit Conversion by Fran�ois Cardarelli, 2nd English edition of 1999. It says 1 therm = 100 000 Btu = 1.054 804 X 10^8. -- Joseph B. Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Telephone 416-486-6071
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